calmy
Joined Jun 2001
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Many people are mislead that this movie is something original. It isn't. There are many previous movies that have "flying men" scenes in the fighting. Yuen Woo-Ping has been doing that kind of choreography since the 70's. It should also be noted that Chow Yun Fat cannot do martial arts and was a poor choice to play the role of a master just for that fact. Overall the movie is enjoyable and the scenery is good, but the story and fighting aren't original enough for true Hong Kong movie fans to consider it the best ever made. If you liked Crouching Tiger I recommend checking out some of the choreographers earlier works like Fist of Legend or Iron Monkey.
You can tell this is one of Woo-Pings earlier works because there is very little wire work done. The fights are all of course expertly choreographed though. The movie itself has an interesting storyline, or at least as interesting as a kung fu movie from 1980 gets. Some of the fighting shows good demonstrations of fist versus palm styles. The DVD version of the movie looks good for the most part, with only a few grains and does have a line going down the left side of the screen for the first 15 minutes of the movie. Its not enough to distract you though and the only other really bad part is a thirty second scene in the dark where there is a lot of grain on the film.
